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Warehouse is planning on removing upload support for bdist_dumb, bdist_rpm, bdist_dmg, bdist_msi, and bdist_wininst:
CPython's distutils deprecated bdist_wininst in 3.8:
- bpo-37481: Deprecate distutils bdist_wininst command python/cpython#14553
- https://discuss.python.org/t/deprecate-bdist-wininst/1929
And is planning on removing bdist_wininst in 3.9:
- bpo-39541: Remove distutils bdist_wininst command python/cpython#18329
- https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-distutils-bdist-wininst-command/3115
In this latter discussion, @pganssle said:
I think the right thing to do here would be to propose removing this [
bdist_wininst] insetuptools, and drop the idea of removing it indistutils. The same goes forbdist_rpmand all the other weird non-wheel binary distributions.
What's necessary to deprecate these in setuptools?
PR #1764 deprecates bdist_egg. A similar pattern could be followed to add warnings in run() in bdist_rpm.py and bdist_wininst.py. Does this sound right?
But I'm less clear on bdist_dumb, bdist_dmg and bdist_msi. Are these handled by setuptools, and if so, where?
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bdist_dmg -
bdist_dumb -
bdist_msi -
bdist_rpmDeprecate bdist_rpm #2780 -
bdist_wininstDeprecate bdist_wininst #2040